Shot/Reverse Shot

The boys are getting as close as humanly possible to being topical this week, with a look at the now-probably-not-topical-at-all Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter campaign. Is this a paradigm shift? A new model for funding films? Exploitative? Against the spirit of crowdsourcing? All these questions and more are ummed and erred around by Joe and Ed, who do their very best to sound informed.

Along the way, they ponder what the success of the Veronica Mars campaign means to other cancelled TV projects such as Community, Terriers and Party Down and speculate wildly at just how much the campaign will end up splashing out on T-Shirts.

n.b. All comments made during this podcast about non-union Mexican film crews are done so purely in jest.

As promised in the Ask Us Anything episode, the boys spend a bit of time pondering a question posed that was deemed too weighty to answer alongside the ones about Unicorns and Obi Wan Kenobi fighting Patrick Swayze. Using the recent documentary Side by Side as a jumping off point, Joe and Ed explore the ever changing relationship between celluloid and digital, tracing it's history, assessing the strengths of each medium and then asking if it really matters what format a film is shot on. To wrap the episode up, Joe and Ed run down their 10 favourite films shot digitally.

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After spending more than a year choosing the subjects on which they show off their freeform waffling skills, Joe and Ed decided to hand the talking stick to you - the audience - to pick the topics of discussion. Selecting a wide range of questions volunteered via Facebook and Twitter, the boys find themselves debating hypothetical dust ups between nightclub bouncers and Jedi Knights, wondering why films seem to be so long these days and pondering on the scarcity of unicorns in motion pictures.

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As promised at the end of the last episode, Joe and Ed fulfill their contractual obligation and cast their eyes over the veritable feast of TV coming up this year. Show favourites Arrested Development, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Community all return, 30 Rock draws to a close and fresh faced young bucks S.H.I.E.L.D and Under the Dome vie for position on the autumn schedule.

As always, the focus of this episode wanders, most specifically becuase Joe is surreptitiously watching Couples Retreat in the background....

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Season Two of Shot/Reverse Shot kicks off with an epic look at the cinematic year ahead of us. Joe and Ed take a shifty at everything from the wonkiest blockbuster to the most gongworthy Oscar bait. We preview the awards season, speculate as to what will be the movers and shakers of the year and then run down out top ten most anticipated films of the coming 12 months.

As per usual, there are tangents aplenty, including a new Crimewatch-style feature and a seemingly unending list of mispronounced surnames.

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In the final part of their 2012 round up, the boys finally get to learn what their top films of 2012 were. Compiled using a complex and highly secret mathematical formula, Joe and Ed take you on a 90 minute tour of the very best of 2012, firstly running through the films that didn't quite make the cut, before discussing the top 10 films of the year one by one.

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In the 2nd part of the Shot/Reverse Shot review of the year, Joe & Ed focus on the very worst 2012 had to offer. They look at the box office losers John Carter and Rock of Ages, Ed loses it whilst recalling the moment the plot turned in Woman in the Fifth and Joe relives the horror of Red Tails.

Along the way, the boys disagree on what to make of the year's more divisive films, such as Shame and Ted, but patch things up before it gets out of hand.

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Holy shit, the Shot/Reverse Shot Podcast is one year old. Like most one year olds, we still soil ourselves and dribble, thankfully in the form of 90 minutes of informative  mildly amusing film natter. We've been on a bit of a hiatus, but we're back to round up the year that was 2012, with part one of our 3 part review of the ups and downs of the cinematic calendar.

Here, in part one, Joe and  Ed chat about 2012 in general, talk about the big news stories, box office winners and losers and do that bit where they talk about folk who have sadly left us in the last 12 months.

Of course, this is presented in Shot/Reverse Shot's trademark rambling style, with tangents aplenty.

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It's an age old question; what is the downright biggest stinking mess of a film you've ever seen? In this special minisode, Ed & Joe re-live some personal cinematic nightmares, including a Feldman/Haim post-fame 'comedy', ropey Greek found footage horror and something called Pumaman.

It's not just the obscure films we shed light on, we also sit some of the Hollywood big boys on the naughty step for 15 minutes so they can think about what they've done.

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It's an age old question; what is the downright biggest stinking mess of a film you've ever seen? In this special minisode, Ed & Joe re-live some personal cinematic nightmares, including a Feldman/Haim post-fame 'comedy', ropey Greek found footage horror and something called Pumaman.

It's not just the obscure films we shed light on, we also sit some of the Hollywood big boys on the naughty step for 15 minutes so they can think about what they've done.

As per usual, listen, enjoy, rate and review!